Redwood City Library, Community Room, 1044 Middlefield Rd., Redwood City

Katie Crouch is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Girls in trucks, Men and dogs, and the Magnolia League series. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Observer, Tin House, Glamour, Slate, the London Guardian, and McSweeney's. She received her M.F.A. at Columbia University, and was awarded a Sewanee Walter Dakin Fellowship and a MacDowell Fellowship.

New York Times bestselling author of MEN AND DOGS and GIRLS IN TRUCKS has written a young adult novel about a debutante society where white gloves and silk gowns are the norm and anything else is just unheard of. After her mother dies in a tragic accident, sixteen-year-old Alexandria Lee is sent to live with a wealthy grandmother she's never known in Savannah, Georgia. By birth, she is entitled to be a member of the Magnolia League, Savannah’s debutante society, but Alex struggles to fit in. She is the first person in decades to question the League’s intentions and when she does, she discovers some deadly secrets hidden beneath the glossy Southern facade. (jasbro)… (more)

"Katie Crouch's fantastic debut novel details the life of a girl groomed for southern society who shakes off the debutante trappings as she gets older. In celebration, Wordsmiths Books and Little, Brown present the Girls in Trucks contest. Anyone who shows up in their high-society ball gown or cotilion dress, or who arrives in full-on Girls in Trucks style (namely, in a truck) gets entered into a special contest to win prizes! Drinks and food will round out the Girls in Trucks evening celebrating Katie Crouch at Wordsmiths Books." (christiguc)… (more)